New Haven Gang Initiation Threat is True!
By now you have probably gotten an email or a phone call suggesting that there are supposed to be gang initiations going on in New Haven tonight. The plan is to rear end your car, and once you get out of the car they will shoot you!
It sounded like an Urban Legend to me, but my administrator just got off the phone with the New Haven Police Department who confirmed the information with these words, "there is credibility to that report!"
They recommended that if you do happen to be rear-ended tonight to lock your door, and call 911 immediately (presumably as you keep driving!).
What a way to live! God Help Us!!!
I think it it's well over-due that the NHPD start being about law enforcement and not about selective and usually no enforcement.
Many officers have developed skills in avoiding criminal circumstances by seeing and turning the other way.
They are about little to no work only to take a pay check home and not living in this city.
It's time for new leadership and not from within the current dept. ranks. These hiring practices have gone on for years and this city continues to decline as it mostly affects the hard and abused working class.
We need a clean and honest leader not within the dept. who sees the need to bring the entire community together to make all of our streets safe.
We need parents to be accountable for their children and have opportunities in our communities to keep our children interested in things to help them grow and better there future prospects rather then boredom and ultimately the criminal justice systems dead end means of intervention.
Politics as usual is destroying all of our communities and this country as a whole, we all will ultimately become victims.
Currently you can't rely on Law Enforcement to protect you, because they show up after all is done as apposed to being proactive and diminishing the threats of victimization.
Posted by: Resident w/diminshing hope for this Town | March 28, 2008 at 12:25 AM